Russell Brand found guilty of rape and sexual assault

🗞️ Story file #1452

Russell Brand found guilty of rape and sexual assault

Nov 5, 10 AM ET to Nov 5, 1 PM ET

30outlets carried it
🫏13 · 5 · 12🐘left · center · right
3 hourson the front pages
30front pages at once, at its peak
38 minof TV captions
1radio newscast
3 of 3parts of a saga

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Nov 5, 10 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Nov 5, 10 AM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
Nov 5, 11 AM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
Nov 5, 1 PM ETpeak: on 30 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 5, 10 AM to Nov 5, 1 PM ET (peak 30), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

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💬 Quoted

“Predatory”1
“You f--ked it”1

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nothing of its own

🐘 right
uk court

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📌 Linked by aggregators

2 Drudge Report · Google News

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✏️ 6 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Breitbart (2 wordings): “Russell Brand Found Guilty” → “UK Court Finds Russell Brand Guilty of Rape and Sexual Assault”
New York Post (2 wordings): “A jury in London on Thursday convicted Russell Brand of rape and sexual assault.” → “Russell Brand’s lawyer lashes out at journalist after comedian is found guilty of rape: ‘You f–ked it’ up”
New York Times (2 wordings): “Russell Brand Is Found Guilty of Rape and Sexual Assault” → “Timeline: How Russell Brand Went From Comedy Star to Convicted Rapist”
Reuters (2 wordings): “Comedian Russell Brand found guilty by UK court of rape and sexual assaults” → “Comedian Russell Brand found guilty by UK court of rape and sexual assaults - Reuters”
The Independent (2 wordings): “Comedian Russell Brand guilty of rape and sexual assault in UK court” → “‘Predatory’ comedian Russell Brand told he faces long prison sentence after rape conviction”
USA Today (2 wordings): “Russell Brand found guilty of rape and sexual assault after bombshell UK trial” → “Russell Brand found guilty of rape, sexual assault after bombshell trial”

📰 Every outlet's headline 30left to right by AllSides rating